remi1444:
I did sir,you intend to diversify to other venture...
why not just forfeit the ambition to become a lawyer and start the biz?

remi1444:
are you saying everyone should become an entrepreneur?
I do not want to believe you are among those pushover that jamb changed their destiny?.
I am a conformist of pursuing passion, around my locality there are tons of Entrepreneurs that their feeding method is from their hands to their mouth, In life Equality is just a theory.

Finstar:


You need to know the difference between an entrepreneur and a self employed.. However, i'm not advocating for anyone to become an entrepreneur. If that happens, balance is broken. When i was a kid with a stale childish mindset, I wanted to be a lawyer.. Then I grew up and discovered that the real world needed more. I believe in the pursuit of passion, but to be financially free, you've to go up your game and look into the path of entrepreneurship. You're in a professional field doesn't you can't.

Thank you.

queenfav:
I woke up to mentions from law freshers graduates and law school aspirants, saying my post was discouraging.I never said don't study law, I am just giving you a heads up on what to expect after law school.Let me save my breath, will be here waiting for feedback when you all are done with law school, and have worn the wig and gown to different Courts, worked with a law firm for 4 years like I have!
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I am not one to sugarcoat anything. I stand by my previous posts and he who has ear will heed all i said. If you like be living in wonderland expecting that a red carpet will be rolled out for you after call to bar!I Wish you all the best.I have been practicing law since 2014,so i should know better! Them say who no go, no know! Wait till you are practicing law, then come back and comment that my post was all fluff!
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Who advised me to start a business? Nobody o. When you have bills to pay, you live alone and do everything for yourself, you wouldn't want to die with a profession that can't even feed you!I thank God for my life today..
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I made a post in 2015 (link below). I was suffering severe depression after my call to bar/Nysc completion. I hated those who commented and told me to start a business. In my mind, i felt it was insulting, that why did i spend 6 years of my life studying law if I can't practice it and be well paid?
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I thought it was beneath a Lawyer to go into buying and selling.. Hehehehehehee. Newsflash, the money i make from my business on a good day, is one that law practice will not fetch me in two months! The same business i felt was not something a lawyer should do, is my major source of income today!
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I encourage those who mentioned me to read and gather facts so you don't say nobody told you. I am not the average Nigerian who avoids the elephant in the room, i say it like it really is!
https://www.nairaland.com/2534179/did-make-mistake-studying-law

remi1444:
thank God your reply wasn't as crude as our last encounter in another thread.
Anyway, different folks with different stroke.
grace differs.

NeeKlaus:

Dude, you are a Law fresher? I am almost in my finals and I can tell you plainly that what she said is the bitter truth. It's more beneficial to be realistic.

The Law market right now is over-saturated and extremely bloated. With the high influx of graduate lawyers each year from the Law school, it takes the grace of God (and connections too) to actually practice the course successfully and financially too.

Honestly, I am not so big on law practice. The jumping upandan in court, hoping a juicy brief falls on you. I have other ideas I hope to successfully carry out in the law field after law school and Corporate law would definitely do it for me.

What she typed there is the bitter truth; I have heard that tale severally and even from some of my lecturers.

EricSmallz:
I have been admitted by the Nigeria Law School. But I need a miracle to be able to pay my fees.

Finstar:


Crude? Who doesn't like crude product? From there, lots of things are produced lol.. Sometimes I can be straight to a fault. I know it's a flaw and I'm working on it. If I had offended you, please pardon.. Thank You Sir.

queenfav:
Thanks a lot. Well, i don't blame anybody. I blame myself actually, else my younger brother's age mate in 100L would not be bandying words with me. Experience remains the best teacher. This is my last post here.

remi1444:
can a a CEO offend a janitor? lolz ...boss we cool.

remi1444:
Am I'm sorry if you received my quotes as disrespectful, am I'm sorry just that am I'm being passionate.

jamariwolf:

and you're a law student too?

remi1444:
I'm a fresher sir, Thank you bro, I've learnt from you.

jamariwolf:
my pleasure. you welcome.

queenfav:
I didn't want to talk o, cos if i start to talk eh! Yea the guy is somewhat right.. I know a married man with a child earning 15k monthly working in a medium sized firm. The appearance fee he was promised never comes regularly.To feed his family is a big issue!Some clients would rather pay your appearance fee with thanks and prayers.
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Law will make u rich if you are from a highly connected family where good briefs can fall on your laps, or after many years of blood, sweat and tears. I don't know how to convey all my thoughts o, but finally being a lawyer is not as great as it's cracked up to be. Just last week, a lawyer who is 20 years at the bar, was begging my colleague for 500 naira to eat at Court of appeal canteen. I almost cried because people seeing him outside would assume he is making it big. He has been owing his counsels in Chambers salary of 25k for about two months now.


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I have been practicing law since 2014 and trust me, the personal briefs i have gotten hasn't fetched me up to 250k!Not to discourage the op o, but be prepared for life after law school. It's not rosy at all.My first job after service was with N10000 pay. I had to rely on my savings to get by, because that money couldn't even feed me in two weeks.
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By all means go to law school, but i beg you in God's name.. Have a skill, business or talent that will feed you.. Law won't give you the big bucks except u land a juicy job or come from a family with connections. So Yes some lawyers are 5 years at the bar, if you take them to the bank. They can't boast of 200k account balance!.
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If someone had been honest with me, i would have saved myself the long years of studying law by going for mass communications, then used the One million naira plus i spent in law school on books, feeding, fees, living expenses etc to quietly set up a business. By now i would have had chains of businesses. Anyways, thank God for opening my eyes.
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In the law firm i work, all of us have businesss we combine with work to make extra cash. Two of my colleagues sells cars. One is into Digital branding, another does food supply from the North to hotels and restaurants (carrots, irish potatoes green peppers). The profession is over saturated. Only the older lawyers are cashing in big time, most new wigs are left to wallow in poverty. Just best to have a back up plan, so you don't get lured into doing anything dirty for money.
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Recently, someone was gisting me about a girl who attended the same university with me. As we speak she does runs to survive, alongside her job of 20k in Warri. She does rich married guys to meet up with herra bills.You can imagine a professional trading her body for few crumbs. It is well o, just be smart, that's all. (Do pardon the typos)!

queenfav:
I didn't want to talk o, cos if i start to talk eh! Yea the guy is somewhat right.. I know a married man with a child earning 15k monthly working in a medium sized firm. The appearance fee he was promised never comes regularly.To feed his family is a big issue!Some clients would rather pay your appearance fee with thanks and prayers.
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Law will make u rich if you are from a highly connected family where good briefs can fall on your laps, or after many years of blood, sweat and tears. I don't know how to convey all my thoughts o, but finally being a lawyer is not as great as it's cracked up to be. Just last week, a lawyer who is 20 years at the bar, was begging my colleague for 500 naira to eat at Court of appeal canteen. I almost cried because people seeing him outside would assume he is making it big. He has been owing his counsels in Chambers salary of 25k for about two months now.


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I have been practicing law since 2014 and trust me, the personal briefs i have gotten hasn't fetched me up to 250k!Not to discourage the op o, but be prepared for life after law school. It's not rosy at all.My first job after service was with N10000 pay. I had to rely on my savings to get by, because that money couldn't even feed me in two weeks.
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By all means go to law school, but i beg you in God's name.. Have a skill, business or talent that will feed you.. Law won't give you the big bucks except u land a juicy job or come from a family with connections. So Yes some lawyers are 5 years at the bar, if you take them to the bank. They can't boast of 200k account balance!.
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If someone had been honest with me, i would have saved myself the long years of studying law by going for mass communications, then used the One million naira plus i spent in law school on books, feeding, fees, living expenses etc to quietly set up a business. By now i would have had chains of businesses. Anyways, thank God for opening my eyes.
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In the law firm i work, all of us have businesss we combine with work to make extra cash. Two of my colleagues sells cars. One is into Digital branding, another does food supply from the North to hotels and restaurants (carrots, irish potatoes green peppers). The profession is over saturated. Only the older lawyers are cashing in big time, most new wigs are left to wallow in poverty. Just best to have a back up plan, so you don't get lured into doing anything dirty for money.
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Recently, someone was gisting me about a girl who attended the same university with me. As we speak she does runs to survive, alongside her job of 20k in Warri. She does rich married guys to meet up with her bills.You can imagine a professional trading her body for few crumbs. It is well o, just be smart, that's all. (Do pardon the typos)!

sinaj:
Your story tho.

I never loved Law but almost studied it coz of fathers choice ish. Heard stories like yours when I was still in secondary schl nd it really scared the hell out of me. My frnds mum studied law but is into business, Even had a frnd on 2go that period that studied law but had to leave it for human hair business.

I also know many people that studied law but dont practice, later learnt they only after the prestige that comes with the title.

That was how I missed studying law.

14teenK:
Do you regret not studying the course or what??

queenfav:
Hahahahahaha.. I reserve my comments.

darkenkach:
I doubt if you will be able to make close to that amount in 5years after law school.

remi1444:
Smh, all I've got to say is GRACE DIFFERS. the way you painted the picture, especially to us that are fresher, it will make us study it reluctantly with the impression that law has lost it's glory, you cant succeed in life if you rely on LL.B+BL .
I should dump this Law thing and start up a provision store since queenfav and Finstar said Law isn't worthwhile and if it goes wrong.... comment my reserve.

Erums:



With yr expressions and comprehension level, im I'm or I AM not sure ure mentally capable to study law.... Whats wit u... Get the message, u either acept or decline, u cnt change her opinion....

Lastly, her opinions are real life not the books,

remi1444:
As a well cultured yoruba/uloshi lad, my parent instill in me how to respect elders even when they do not deserve it.

remi1444:
I am a law fresher, the way you made the profession look makes it seem like no "mr nobody" can make a living from it, even here on nairaland we've got well to do "mr nobodies" like Tolusan, mrmcjay, teespice, eveluv, treash, lawyer etc. The way you generalised how "disastrous" it is to study law could go to the number umpteenth miles to kill the zeal of prospective lawyers in pursuing what they are passionate about.
Am sorry for countering your post, just posting AS IT FLOWS.

darkenkach:
[s]I doubt if you will be able to make close to that amount in 5years after law school.[/s]

Erums:


Ure beautiful maam... Seriously